Improvement in weather-board scribe



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" www gi/lira. i' 1A ABRAHAM AMitLER ANDA URI-AH rains, 'ou RED Rock,ToWNsHiR oWA..

` Letters Patent No.`IO5,826,-Adated July/26,1870.

` IMPROVEMENT IN` WEATHER-BOARD SCRIBE.

` The Schedule referred to in these Letter Patent:` and making part ofthe same URIAHVFARIS, of Red Rock township, in the county of Marion and`in the State of Iowa, have invented certain newand useful Improvementsin Spring Weather-board Scribe; and do hereby declare that the followingis a-full, clear, and exact description thereofreference being had- -to`the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereonmaking a part of Athis specification.

` The nature of our invention V(.:onsistsin the construction andarrangemcntof a spring weather-board scribe, as will be hereinafterfully set forth.

In order to enableothcrs skilled inthe artto which ourinventionappertains to make and use the same, wewill `now proceed todesoribeiits construction and operation, `referring to 4.the annexeddrawing, in

` side a bar, a, with hook i b projecting through the slot in the plateB.l Tothis bar a the knife or scribe y D is secured'by means of a setscrew,\e, which passes through a slot in the knife, whereby also theknife may be adj ustedjas desired. y Y

Ihe slide C is attached to one end` of the frame A` To all whom `it mayconcern: i U Be it known that we, ABRAHAM MILLER and by means of arubber or other spring, E, and is drawn up the other end, where it iscaught on a trigger, G, operated by means of the button H.

L Bypressing slightly on 'the button H the trigger G is released,causing, by the action of the spring E, the slide C, with the knife I),to move suddenly toward the other vend of the frame.

On the slide C are two springs, d d, which, if the knife or/scrbe shouldstrike any hardsubstance while it is doing its work, will letthe knifegive or yield, and still perform its work with accuracy.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire Vto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The slide C, provided with bar a, hook I1, and

.springs al d, and having the adjustable knife I) attached toitsubstantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. a

2. The combination of the frame A, plate B, slide C, knife D, springvE,trigger G, andubutton I-I, all

constructedfand arranged as described, and operating substantially asand for the purposes .herein set forth.'

i In testimony that wcclai'xn the foregoing, we have `hereunto seto'urhands this2lst day'of April, 1870.

ABRAHAM MILLER. URIAH FARIS.

. Witnesses: i

C. L. EVERT,

WrLLmM HARDIN.

